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Visa Procedures of Department of State: The Struelens Case. Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States, Eighty-Seventh Congress, Second
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Visa Procedures of Department of State: The Struelens Case. Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States, Eighty-Seventh Congress, Second
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Visa Procedures of Department of State: The Struelens Case. Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States, Eighty-Seventh Congress, Second
219:, where his father was a civil servant. In 1950, he was employed by the Economic Affairs Department of the Belgian Congo as inspector, and eventually as provincial director ad interim. He was sent to 700: 671: 625: 596: 197: 339: 291: 429: 927: 781: 824: 789: 698:
Brownell, Josiah (2014). "Diplomatic Lepers: The Katangan and Rhodesian Foreign Missions in the United States and the Politics of Nonrecognition".
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Brownell, Josiah (2014). "Diplomatic Lepers: The Katangan and Rhodesian Foreign Missions in the United States and the Politics of Nonrecognition".
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Brownell, Josiah (2014). "Diplomatic Lepers: The Katangan and Rhodesian Foreign Missions in the United States and the Politics of Nonrecognition".
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Brownell, Josiah (2014). "Diplomatic Lepers: The Katangan and Rhodesian Foreign Missions in the United States and the Politics of Nonrecognition".
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and will not serve to impress either those who agree or disagree with the position of the State Department toward the
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Struelens travelled to several European capitals to lobby for Tshombe's release, to no avail: Tshombe died in
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stated that "the actions of the State Department in reference to Struelens have been beneath our dignity as a
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Struelens obtained his PhD at the Department of Political Science, International Law and Relations at the
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in August 1961, however, the United States took a firmer stance against Tshombe. According to diplomat
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in July 1964, Struelens became the personal representative for Tshombe in his dealings with the
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had to determine whether the State Department abused its power in this matter. Senator
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Michel Struelens, representing Congolese Prime Minister Moïse Tshombe, in 1964.
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Entführung und Tod des Moïse Tshombe: Das Ende einer Hoffnung für den Kongo
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where he got detained, Struelens and other Tshombe advocates founded the
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The United Nations in the Congo, or O.N.U.C., and international politics
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used Struelens' incorrect visa as a pretext to expel him. A
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Struelens married Godelieve De Wilde and had five children.
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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When Tshombe's plane was hijacked and redirected to
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Katanga Information Services
Moïse Tshombe
Saint-Gilles
Belgium
University of Antwerp
Antwerp
American University
PhD
Belgian
Moïse Tshombe
unrecognized
State of Katanga
United States
Belgian Congo
Brussels
Expo 58
Ruanda-Urundi
Bukavu
Moïse Tshombe
Fifth avenue
New York
Katangese secession
Republic of Congo
Paul-Henri Spaak
New York Times
Senator
Thomas J. Dodd
Cyrille Adoula
Prime Minister of Congo

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